Software Engineering Jobs in Cheshire

Software Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 16 38
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 95 157 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.97% 8.81% 5.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.87% 11.60% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17 142 22
10th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,313 £62,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -22.58% +37.28%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,550 £85,000 £96,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 738 1,353 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 77.44% 75.88% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 297 967 436
10th Percentile - £26,250 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £48,013 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% -3.97% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,250 £72,149 £91,250
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford +8 11 £74,500 -6.88% 16
Chester -5 8 £60,000 - 36
Macclesfield +3 5 £50,000 -21.88%
Crewe -4 4 £55,000 +4.76%
Warrington +13 3 - - 27
Runcorn +5 3 - -
Ellesmere Port -1 3 - - 2
Northwich - 3 - - 2
Widnes - 3 - -
Wilmslow - 3 - - 7
Sandbach - 2 - -
Congleton - 2 - -
Middlewich - 2 - -
Winsford +7 1 - -
Neston - 1 £50,000 -
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (22.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) GNU Octave
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (84.21%) AWS
2 77 (81.05%) Azure
3 41 (43.16%) GCP
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.05%) Internet
1 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (57.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.05%) MySQL
3 1 (1.05%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.05%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 56 (58.95%) GitLab
1 56 (58.95%) JIRA
2 55 (57.89%) Bitbucket
2 55 (57.89%) Cucumber
2 55 (57.89%) Maven
2 55 (57.89%) Selenium
2 55 (57.89%) SonarQube
2 55 (57.89%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (4.21%) Git
4 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (78.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (61.05%) Finance
3 55 (57.89%) Banking
4 35 (36.84%) Retail
5 34 (35.79%) Corporate Banking
5 34 (35.79%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 86 (90.53%) Software Engineer
2 30 (31.58%) Senior
3 25 (26.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (3.16%) Control Systems Engineer
4 3 (3.16%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (2.11%) Developer
5 2 (2.11%) Java Engineer
5 2 (2.11%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (2.11%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.05%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (1.05%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (1.05%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Site Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Software Manager
6 1 (1.05%) Software Project Manager
6 1 (1.05%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (58.95%) CSS
1 56 (58.95%) HTML
1 56 (58.95%) React
1 56 (58.95%) Spring
1 56 (58.95%) Spring Boot
2 55 (57.89%) JPA
2 55 (57.89%) Kafka
2 55 (57.89%) Redux
3 37 (38.95%) RESTful
4 35 (36.84%) CSS3
4 35 (36.84%) HTML5
4 35 (36.84%) REST
5 34 (35.79%) Jest
5 34 (35.79%) Sass
6 22 (23.16%) .NET
7 21 (22.11%) Hibernate
8 20 (21.05%) Node.js
9 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.11%) OAuth
9 2 (2.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 55 (57.89%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (57.89%) Product Ownership
2 20 (21.05%) Cyberattack
2 20 (21.05%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.16%) SCADA
4 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.11%) Blog
4 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.05%) PKI
5 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.05%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (83.16%) Agile
1 79 (83.16%) Microservices
2 59 (62.11%) CI/CD
2 59 (62.11%) DevOps
3 57 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 57 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 56 (58.95%) Performance Optimisation
4 56 (58.95%) SDLC
4 56 (58.95%) Test Automation
5 55 (57.89%) Front End Development
5 55 (57.89%) User Experience
6 54 (56.84%) Mentoring
7 35 (36.84%) Migration
7 35 (36.84%) Strategic Thinking
8 34 (35.79%) Responsive Web Design
9 23 (24.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 23 (24.21%) TDD
10 22 (23.16%) Clean Code
10 22 (23.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (23.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (86.32%) Java
2 79 (83.16%) JavaScript
3 60 (63.16%) SQL
4 35 (36.84%) TypeScript
5 23 (24.21%) Python
6 22 (23.16%) C++
7 21 (22.11%) Go
7 21 (22.11%) Rust
8 3 (3.16%) C#
9 2 (2.11%) Bash
10 1 (1.05%) C
10 1 (1.05%) Julia
10 1 (1.05%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.05%) PHP
10 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (22.11%) DV Cleared
1 21 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.05%) AWS Certification
2 20 (21.05%) AWS Certified Developer
2 20 (21.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.11%) Degree
4 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (57.89%) QA
2 34 (35.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 59 (62.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (62.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.16%) Ansible
3 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.05%) Grafana
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.05%) Puppet
4 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (57.89%) Solace
2 2 (2.11%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle
3 1 (1.05%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software